Senior Consultant, Professional Services
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EDB provides a data and AI platform that enables organizations to harness the full power of Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads across any cloud, anywhere. EDB empowers enterprises to control risk, manage costs and scale efficiently for a data and AI led world. Serving more than 1,500 customers globally and as the leading contributor to the vibrant and fast-growing PostgreSQL community, EDB supports major government organizations, financial services, media and information technology companies. EDB’s data-driven solutions enable customers to modernize legacy systems and break data silos while leveraging enterprise-grade open source technologies. EDB delivers the confidence of up to 99.999% high availability with mission critical capabilities built in such as security, compliance controls, and observability. For more information, visit www.enterprisedb.com
EDB is seeking a Consultant/Senior Consultant to join our Professional Services team in EMEA. This is a dual-level role: candidates with 2–5 years of relevant experience will be considered at Consultant level, while those with 5–8+ years of DBA or data engineering experience will be considered at Senior Consultant level.
This is a customer-facing, technically hands-on role spanning two core disciplines: Postgres database consulting (migrations, HA/DR, performance tuning, DBA advisory) and modern data engineering (data pipelines, analytics platforms, AI/ML integration). The ideal candidate brings strength in one discipline and credible working knowledge of the other — enabling them to serve EDB's expanding EMEA customer base across traditional enterprise database workloads and next-generation AI and analytics use cases.
- Assess existing customer deployments of Postgres and associated tools; develop recommendations and document required technical steps in clear runbooks.
- Perform database migrations from Oracle, SQL Server and/or MySQL to PostgreSQL — schema conversion, data migration, PL/SQL remediation.
- Design, implement and test High Availability configurations using PostgreSQL: EFM, Patroni and PGD (Active/Active) architectures.
- Perform performance tuning for existing database deployments: queries, database configuration and OS-level optimisation.
- Implement backup and recovery strategies (Barman, WAL archiving, PITR); perform upgrades and patching.
- Evaluate customer security requirements and make recommendations covering authentication, encryption and access control.
- Work with customers to upgrade applications to the latest version of Postgres and configure them to take advantage of new features.
- Develop Professional Services proposals that address customer needs and targets; contribute to the PS pre-sales process.
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